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ORDINANCE NO. 26.
An Ordinance Ordering a Special
Election to Be Held in District No.
31 of the Parish of Caldwell, for the
Purpose of Submitting to the Qual.
ified Electors of the Said Parish the
Question of the Levy of a Special
Tax of Ten Mills ($.010) for the
Purpose of Providing Additional Aid
to the Public Schools of the Said
District.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the
Parish Board of School Directors of
the Parish of Caldwell, Louisiana,
that a special election be and is here
by ordered to be held in District No.
31 of the Parish of Caldwell. Louisi
ana, on the 1st day of August, 1916, for
the purpose of submitting to the qual
ified electors of the said parish, enti
tled to vote thereat, the question of
the levy of a special tax of ten mills
($.010) on the dollar of all property in
the said parish, subject to state taxa
tion, for a period of five (5) years,
the proceeds of said tax to be used
in giving additional aid to the public
schools of the said parish.
Be it further ordained, etc.. that the
ballots to be used at the said election
shall be prepared by the Secretary of
the Parish Board of School Directors,
and shall be in the following form:
Proposition to levy a ten mills
($.010) special tax on all the property
Pubject to taxation in District No. 31
of the Parish of Caldwell, Louisiana.
annually, for the period of
five years, for the purpose YES
of giving additional aid to
the public schools of the
said district.
Taxable valuation, $........
Notice to Voters.-To vote in favor
of the proposition submitted upon
this ballot, place a cross (X) mark in
the square after the word "yes;" to
vote against it, place a similar mark
in the square after the word "no."
Signature or Voter.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, etc.,
that the Secretary of the Parish Board
of School Directors be, and he is
hereby ordered to cause to be pre
Dared for use at the said election the
tally sheets, lists of qualified voters,
assessed valuation of property, blank
statements for the compilation of the
vote, in number and amount, and oth
er election blanks that may be re
quired for the purpose of holding the
said election, to cause the same to be
placd in the ballot boxes for use at
the respective precincts, and to make
provision for the transmission of the
ballot boxes to the several precincts
of the parish at which the election is
to be held.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, etc.,
that the polling place or precinct for
the said election shall .be Holum, and
the following three commissioners
and clerk of election are appointed to
the respective polling place, all of
whom shall serve without compensa
tion: C. R. Elliott, J. S. Ferguson,
Ernest Taylor, and E. W. Braddock,
clerk.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, etc.,
that the Parish Board of School Di
rectors shalt meet at 11 o'clock a. m.,
on the 1st day of August, 1916, for the
purpose of, in open session, examin
Ing and counting the hallots, canvass
ing the returns, and dcl:tring the re
sult of said election.
Sec. 6, Be it further ordained, etc.,
that the President of the Parish Board
of School Directors he, and he is here
by insiructed to give public notice of
said e;ection by proclamation, to be
duly pbi:;liched according to law.
Geo. T. Martin,
Prcsidcnt, Parish Board of School Di
rectors.
J. C. Hincs, Secretary.
'There being no further business,
the board adjourned, to meet on July
26, 1916.
Geo. T. Martin, President.
J. C. Hines, Secretary.
PROCLAMATION.
Pursuant to a resolution passed by
the Parish Board of Directors of the
Parish of Caldwell, Louisiana, held on
the 7th day of June, 1916, I, George
T. Martin, President of the said Par
ish Board of School Directors, hereby
give notice that, in compliance with
said resolution, a special election will
be held in Wards or School Districts
Nos. 14 and 15, Parish of Caldwell,
Louisiana, on the 25th day of July,
1916, for the purpose of sumbitting to
the qualified property tax payers,
qualified under the constitution and
laws of the State of Louisiana to vote
at said election, the following propo
s!tion, to-wit:
To levy ,a special tax of ten mills
($.010) on the dollar on all property
in Wards or School Districts Nos. 14
and 15, Parish of Caldwell, Louisiana,
subject to state taxation, annually, for
a period of five (5) years, for the pur
pose of giving additional aid to the
public schools of said ward or school
district.
For the purpose of said special elec
tion the polling places will be: Dis
trict 14, Columbia; District 15, Bill's
Creek, and the following commission
ers and clerks of election of each poll- I
ing place have been appointed to
serve at this election, all of whom
shall serve without compensation:
For District 14, M. Jarrell, J. L. Kel
ley and D. J. Dunn, and C. R. Fer
rand, clerk; District 15, Fred Banks,
T. B. Estess and R. L. Caldwell, and
C. P. Bailey, clerk.
At said special election the polls
will be open at 7 o'clock a. m. and
close at 5 o'clock p. m., and the elec
tion will be conducted in accordance
with the laws of Louisiana applicable
thereto.
Notice is also given that at 11
o'clock a. m., on the 2d day of August,
1916, said Parish Board of School Di
rectors of the Parish of CaldwelU
Louisiana, will meet at Columbia,
Louisiana, and in open session pro
ceed to open the ballot boxes, exam
ine and count the ballots in number
and amount, examine and canvass
the returns, and declare the result of
said special election.
This the 19th day of June, 1916.
Geo. T. Martin,
President, Parish Board of School Di
rectors.
PROCLAMATION.
Pursuant to a resolution passed by
the Parish Board of School Directors
of the Parish of Caldwell, Louisiana,
held on the 7th day of June, 1916, 1,
George T. Martin. President of the
said Parish Board of School Directors,
hereby give notice that, In compliance
with said resolution, a special elec
tion will be held in Ward of School
District No. 13, Parish of Caldwell,
Louisiana, on the 1st day of August,
1916, for the purpose of submitting to
the qualified property tax payers,
qualified under the constitution and
laws of the state of Louisiana to vote
at said election, the following propo
sition, to-wit:
To levy a special tax of five mills
($.005) on the dollar on all p'op,.rty
in Ward or School District No. 17,
Parish of ('Caldwell. louisia:a, subject
to state taxation, annually, for a pe
riod of five years, for the purpose of
giving additional aid to the public
schools of said ward or school dis
trict.
For the purpose of said special elec
tion the polling place will be at Lib
erty School House, and the following
commissioners and clerks of election
at each polling place have been ap
pointed to serve at this election, all
of whom shall serve without compen
sation: A. M. Ray, J. J. Downs and
G. L. Shipp, and J. A. Gilbert, clerk.
At said special election the polls
will be open at 7 o'clock a. m., and
close at 5 o'clock p. m., and the elec
tion will be conducted in accordance
with the laws of Louisiana applicable
thereto.
Notice is also given that at 11
o'clock a. m., on the 2d day of August,
1916, said Parish Board of School Di
rectors of the Parish of Caldwell, Lou
isiana, will meet at Columbia, Louis
iana, and in open session proceed to
open the ballot boxes, examine and
count the ballots, in number and
amount, examine and canvass the re
turns, and declare the result of said
special election.
This the 19th day of June, 1916.
Geo. T. Martin,
President, Parish Board of School Di
rectors.
PROCLAMATION.
Pursuant to a resolution passed by
the Parish Board of School Directors
of the Parish of C'aldwell, Louisiana,
held on the 7th day of June, 1916, I,
George T. Martin, President of the
said Parish Board of School Directors,
hereby give notice that, in compliance
with said resolution, a special election
will be held in ward or school district
No. 1, Parish of caldwell. Louisiana,
on the 1st day of August, 1916, for the
purpose of submniting to the riua!ified
property taxpayers qualified under the
constitution and laws of the State of
Louisiana to vote at said election the
following proposition, to-wit:
To levy a special tax of five mills
($.005) on the dollar on all property
in ward or school district No. 1, Parish
of Ca!dwell. Louisiana. subject to state
taxation, annually, for a period of five
(5) years, for the purpose of giving
additional aid to the public schools of
said ward or school district.
For the purpose of said special elec
tion, the polling p'aces wil be St.
Albans, and the following commission
ers and clerks of election of each poll
ing place have been appointed to
serve at this election, all of whom
shall serve without compensation: J.
A. Salter, W. B. Reitzell and J. A.
Powel and I. A. Hucarn, clerk.
At said special election the polls
will be open at seven o'clock a m.
and close at five o'clock p. m., and
the election will be conducted in ac
cordance with the laws of Louisiana
applicable thereto.
Notice is also given that at I1I
o'clock a. m., on the 2d day of August,
1916, said Parish Board of School DI.
rectors of the Parish of Caldwell,
Louisiana. will meet at Columbia,
Loulsiana, and in open session pro
ceed to open the ballot boxes, examine
and count the ballots in number and
amount, examine and canvass the re
turns, and declare the result of said
special election.
This the 19th day of June, 1916.
Geo. T. Martin,
President, Parish Board of School Di
rectors.
PROCLAMATION.
Pursuant to a resolution passed by
the Parish Board of School Directors
of the Parish of Caldwell, Louisiana,
held on the 7th day of June, 1916, I,
George T. Martin, President of the
said Parish Board of School Directors,
I hereby give notice that, in compliance
with said resplution, a special election
will be held in ward or school district
No. 20, Parish of Caldwell. Louisiana,
on the 1st day of August, 1916, for the
purpose of cubmiitting to the qualified
property taxpayers qualified under the
constitution and laws of the State of
Louisiana to vote at said election the
following proposition, to-wit:
To levy a special tax of five mills
t..005) on the dollar on all property
in ward or school district No. 20. Par
ish of Caldwell, Louisiana, subject to
state taxation, annually, for a period
of 'four (4) years, for the purpose of
giving additional aid to the public
schools of said ward or school dis
trict.
For the purpose of said special
election, the polling places will
be Indian Mound, and the follow
Sing commissioners and clerks of
election of each polling place
have been appointed to serve at 'his
election, all of whom shall service
without compensation: J. W. James,
S. J. Wainright, R. A. Lively and Tobe
Lively, clerk.
At said special election, the polls
will be open at seven o'clock a. min.,
and close at five o'clock p. m., and
the election will be conducted in ac
cordance with the laws of Louisiana
applicable thereto.
Notico is also given that at 11
o'clock a. m., on the 2d day of August,
1:116, said Parish Board of School Di
rectors of the Parish of ('Caldwell,
Louisiana, will meet at Columbia,
Louisiana, and in open session pro
ceed to open the ballot boxes, examine
and count the ballots in number and
amount, examine and canvass the re
turns, and declare the result of said
special election.
This the 19th day of June, 1916.
George T. Martin,
President. Parish Board of School Di.
rectors.
PROCLAMATION.
P:mii;iti;: to a resolution passed by
thei P'a:rish inoard of School I)irectors
of the Parish of Caldwell, Louisiana,
held on the 7th day of June, 1916. I,
george T. Martin. President ot the
said Parish Board of School Directors,
hereby give notice th.t, in compliance
with said resolution, a special elec
tion will be held in ward or school dis
trict No. 20, Parish of Caldwell, Louis
iana, on the 1st day of August, 1916,
for the purpose of submitting to the
qualified property taxpayers qualified
under the constitution anl laws of the
State of Louisiana to vote at said
election the following proposition, to
wit:
To levy a special tax of ten mills
($.010) on the dollar on all property
in ward or school district No. 30, Par
Ish of Caldwell, Louisiana, sub3ect to
state taxation, annually, for a period
of ten (10) years, for the purpose or
giving additional aid to the public
schools of said ward or school dis
trict.
For the purpose of said special elec
tion, the polling places will be Friend
ship School House, and the following
commissioners and clerks of election
of each polling place have been ap
pointed to serve at this election, all
of whom shall serve without compen
sation: Ben McHenry, Wiley Watts,
S. S. Gregory and Will Bird, clerk.
At said special election the polls
will be open at seven o'clock a. m.
ant close at five o'clock p. m., and
the election will be conducted in ac
cordance with the laws of Louisiana
applicable thereto.
Notice is. also given that - __x1
o'clock a. in. on the 2d day of August,
1916, said Parish Board of School Di
rectors of the Parish of Caldwell,
Louisiana, will meet at Columbia,
Louisiana. and in open session pro
coed to open the ballot boxes, examine
and count the ballots in number and
amount, examine and canvass the re
turns, and doclaro the result of silld
sp(cial election.
This the 19th day of June. 1916.
George T. Martin,
President, Parish Board of School Di
rectors.
PROCLAeviATION.
Pursuant to a resolution passed by
the Parish Board of ,chool Directors
of the PIarish of Caldwcll, Louisiana,
at called meeting held on the 17th
day of June, 1916, I, Gee. T. Martin,
President of the said Parish Board of
School Directors, hereby give notice
that, in compliance with said resolu
tion, a special election will be held
throughout the Parish of Caldwell,
Louisiana, on the 8th day of August,
1916. for the purpose of submitting to
the property tax payers qualified un
der the constitution and laws of the
State of Louisiana to vote at said elec
tion the following proposition, to-wit:
To levy a special tax of ten mills
($.010) on the dollar on all the proper
ty in said Parish of Laldwell, Louis
iana, subject to state taxation, annual
ly, for a period of five years, for the
purpose of giving additional aid to the
public schools of the said parish.
For the purposes of said special elec
tion, the polling places will be: St.
Albans, St. Peters, Kelley, Columbia,
Grayson, Clarks, Vixen, Fellowship,
Sardis, Wade's Bayou, Brown's Mill,
Union, and Shiloh, and the following
commissioners and clerks of election
are appointed for each of the pre
cincts: St. Albans, J. A. Salter, W. B.
Reltzell and J. A. Powell, and I. A.
Hearn, clerk; St. Peters, G. W. Mar
tin, W. A. Davis and B. E. Erskin, and
J. B. Fluitt, clerk; Kelley, T. J. Dunn,
W. H. Hall and Regle Cruse, and E.
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let l.eople know your
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paper. If results show,
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B. Cottingham, clerk; Columbia. Ea.
son Ray, W. A. Brandin and C. R. Fer
rand, and i). J. Dunn, clerk; Grayson,
W S. Howell, W. C. Valentine and L.
P. Pine, and W. R. Broadway, clerk;
Clarks, J. W. I'lar:cson, A. W. John
son and DI. :. Watson, and J. I). Netlh
ery, clerk: Vixen, O. L. Womack, L.
C. Furlow and W. .1. Railey, and O(so
Dortch, e"lerk: Fellowship, F"red IBanks,
It. L. ( a1hwell and N. A. Ray, and C.
. Itailt- clerk; Sardis, T. L. Ben
son, II. II. lubanks and Frith Long.
and Bowen Eulanks, clerk: Wader
Bayoul, G. . udson, W. I). McSween
and C. 1M Harrelon, and G. M. Live
ly, clerk: Brown's Mill. C. A. Ilobert,
. O. i 0 i-bert. and II. W. (urry. and O.
N. Howa-. clerk; Union, W. 1,. Es
tess, A. W. Simpson and R. A. Itog
e-rs, and I). G. Mayes. clerk: Shiloh,
II.H.. Roark. I). E. Fore, and J. A.
Iludson, and C. F. Lively, c(lrrk.
At said special election, the polls
will be open at seven o'clock a. m.
and close at five o'clock p. m. andt
the election will he conducted in ac
cordance with the laws of the State
of Louisiana appliicable thereto.
Notice is also given that at II
o'clock a. inm. on the 9th (lay of August,
1916, the Parish Board of School 1)i
rectors of the Parish of ('aldwoll,
Louisiana, will meet at 'olumbhia. La..
and in open session proceed to open
the ballot boxes. examine and count
the ballots in numbler anl amount, cx
amine and canvass the returns, and(
declare the result of said special elec
tion.
This the :;rd day of July, 1'916.
George T. Martin,
President, Parish Board of Senool Di
rectors.
WHEN SUN WAS WORSHIPED
Balibec, Now in Ruins, Was the Cen.
ter of Religion That Once Had
Many Adherents.
Baalbec is the city of the sun. Here
the sun god was worshiped thousands
,f years ago, here the ruins of his
reat temple still stand, monstrous
and majestic, a wonder and a mystery
to another age and another race. Here,
too, the sun today still seems to smile
with particular warmth and fervor, as
though regarding his faithful capital
now that his place in the hierarchy of
deities is gone.
In the ruins of Baalbec you can
trace the rise and fall of almost every
creed that the near East, rich In
creeds, has known. The very stones
still lie about that were raised b)y the
worshipers of Baal, whom the Israel
ites overthrew. Then came the Greeks
and the Romans, with temples to Apol
lo and Jupiter, Bacchus and Venus.
The warlike Arabs left their mark in
a tlrcle of fortifications, temples to a
on of the sword. Today the Turk
do minion, and his modern mos
rae--t efr- -rail domed heads,
like *he transient structures of chil
dreil, beside the mighty monuments of
the past.
In plain terms of the guidebooks.
Baalbec is a little Turkish village of
5,000 people situated near some of the
most remarkable ruins on earth. So
there are two Baalbecs-the city of
yesterday and the city of today. Mod
ern Batlbec has its mosques and its
churches and its schools, sends Its re
cruits to the sultan's armies, and
makes picnics to the temple of Bac
chus, where its young men and maidens
hold hands in the twilight. Ancient
Baalbec Is a confused colossus, a heap
of mighty blocks of cunningly carved
stone, earthquake tossed and time eat
en, plied haphazard and buried in
sand, with here and there some frieze,
some wall, some shrine or altar still
raising its head through the tide of
destruction to hold aloft the symbol of
the sun or the Roman eagle.
The old stones have taken on a pe
culiarly rich and golden color with the
years. Fragments that archeologists
unearth from underground are pale
and colorless, but the sunlight of cen
turies has touched what it could reach
with its own sunset hues. Few sights
are so beautiful as Baalbec on a clear
spring evening. The five great col
umns of the sun rear their slender
height heavenward like the trunks of
giant palms. The tumbled temple
stones glow golden in the level rays,
while below stretches the tender green
of young grain, the delicate bloom of
wide orchards. The rock of the col
umn.a crumbles with the passing of
ages, but the bloom of growing life
that blights at a frosty breath returns
ever fresh and new, spring after
spring, eternally.
Monkey Ruled Steamboat.
This is the story of a monkey (Cer
Copithecldae, habitat Albany, N. Y.)
that wanted to captain a ship-and
did, for a little while, the New York
World states.
When the good ship Berkshire of the
Hudson river night line, left Albany
recently this particular anthropodean
qladrunmalilus mammal --passengers
called him worse names than that-got
loose from his keeper and started the
merriest little party the Berkshire has
seen in all her voyaging days.
The first thing he did was to seize
four umbrellas from passengers and
do a wild dance on the deck. Thlen he
-or she, as the case may he-went
down to the engine room and threw
coal at the engineer and firemen, who
retreated. He was chased to the top
deck. whence he jumped into the river.
A disciple of Professor Garner might
have translated the monkey's last cry
as "Death before surrender!"
l'assengers on the Berkshire told the
story. H. F. Moss. general tnraffic man
*mger of the line, said an animal dealer
was bringing three or four monkeys to
this city an, one of them escaped.
Children Learn More In Half a Day
Than If Kept In School Room Longer
By HOYT E. DEARHOLT
Director University of Wisconsin Health Bureau
Two Milwaukee woman teachers have bteen doing sone,, vvtry alvanced
thinking and have conducted an experinment, the results of which offer a
great contribution toward the health of schoolch ildren. For years they
have been utilizing their opportunities to observe chlildren, and Il, g ago
canme to the conclusion that keeping children in school for long hours was
dcfeating its own one object. They saw the "pep" that the children brought
to school in the fall run out toward spring: they saw dancing, sparkling
eyes, so characteristic of the beginning f the school termi, take on an
equally characteristic and dlisquicting end-of-tcrrnt look in the spring.
This did not seem right to lthese women. Being themselves vigorous
minded, they refused to consider it right simply because it existed. They
therefore began a quiet, persist'ent light for the lifte of their idea that a few
hours of concentration in school is worth more than many hours of mere
tinme-serving.
I have had a chance t(f observe that experiment closely, and I am no
less enthusiastic than the teachers about the result. I believe that they
are absolutely right when they declare that not alone can as nmuch as, but
more, learning be accomplished in a half-day session than in a whole day.
What is lost in drill-time is nIade up ninny times over by the condition of
the chiblren's bodies, which are kept vigorous by outdoor play.
An equally important factor is that their young minds don't go stale
by being pushted up to and a little beyond the resilient point oneach day.
Children's minds and bodies are not unlike rubber hands, which work
best and last longest when neither stretiheld too far nor left idle for long
in the storage box.
Attendance at Church Can Be Increased
by Thorough and Attraaive Publicity
By Rev. PAUL B. JENKINS of Milwaukee, Wis.
The possibilities of promoting church attendance and interest in the
mere preaching of the Gospel, by thorough, earnest and attractive publicity
work have been no more than barely touched upon in any place.
All this work is surprisingly successful if kept up. The average man
outside the church thinks of the church as a half-dead-and-alive institu
tion, and is often simply dumfounded at finding it going about its busi
ness in the same ways which the rest of the world goes about those tasks
in which it is desperately in earnest.
All good religious publicity work is missionary work. It is evangelism.
I wish I knew someone who wanted to spend about a million dollars in
nation-wide work of this kind. I could tell him how that expenditure
would change, reform and elevate public opinion, the country over, inside
of two years.
Take, as a single illustration, those remarkable temperance posters
so skillfully planned and distributed by a woman in Cambridge, Mass.,
the civil reform posters issued by a few public-spirited men in Atlanta,
which have proved a moral earthquake and house-cleaning to that city;
or, best of all, those billboard pictures of the Nativity, advocating Go-to
Church Sunday, the Boy Scout movement, etc., which certain great adver
tising firms have placed by the thousands on billboards from Maine to
California.
Play Is Essential to Physical, Mental
and Moral Development of the Country
By EDWINA MARY LAYMAN,
of Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Col.
No place needs play more tthan the rural community. Living tbecome8
a hard, iron-clad proposition with none sure of anything save the deadly
monotony of the daily grind, unles, it be relieved by sonime form of occa
sional recreation.
Play was considered by our forefathers to be a creation of the "evil
one," and to really stop work and to play was a long step on the road to
eternal punishment. The trend of ideas is changing, and today we are
finding in play much that is not only good but absolutely essettial to the
physical, mental aid moral development of thie country.
To the rural community the economic value of recreation is of great
importance. It is not only of value to the farmer to keep his sons and
daughters on the farm, but it is of great value to the country at large.
From the rural districts comes the citizenship of our country, and if we
are to keep the ideals of our nation inviolate, we must keep our country
youth content on the farm. In any place life must be made attractive to
make it worth living, and to save young people from gaining the false
standards of value and false ambitions which the city offers, life at home,
in the country community in which each farmer and his family live must
be made attractive and possible through some form of home and com
munity recreation.
Economic and Social Liberty Are Of As
Much Importance As Political Freedom
SBBy DR. EDMUND J. JAMES
President Univanity, of lilinois
No man is a fret man who is so confined by the mere effort of earn
ing his daily bread that he has no time for thought, no time for emotion,
no time for living a higher life, and in no country is equality existing
in which men are so bound down by the mere fact of keeping body and
soul together that they cannot live lives worthy of human beings.
Political liberty is not by any means the only liberty for which the
human being is anxious and toward which he is aspiring. Economic
liberty and social liberty are just as fundamental and all-pervading neces
sities of the free human being as political liberty itself.
We must look forward, therefore, to the realization of this end as the
ultimate ideal of the republic, and to this ideal we claim that all men who
come into our midst and become a part of our society shall be devoted, and
that this aspiration shall become theirs.